I TAKE NO CREDIT FOR THIS WRITE UP, BUT I DID USE THE SEARCH FUNCTION AND FOUND, BTW SEARCH IS YOUR FRIEND

First things first, you MUST BE ROOTED! Secondly, you must have SDK on your PC installed, and have the ability to adb into your Droid from command line. These instructions are for Windows.

1. Root your droid, set up your SDK and all that jazz. Also, make sure you are using a Chevy kernel, and download the Chevy ext2 file and flash it. If you are using SPRecovery, rename it to update.zip. If using CW, just flash as a normal ROM. I would backup at this point too. File can be found here, THANKS @CRABS!

2. Download the ubuntu boot pack to your PC. I am going to upload an updated version of NexusOneHack's docs that has the working bootubuntu file updated in the zip so you don't have to do it manually. This will be in my next post... i am uploading to Megaupload as we speak.

For now, here is the ubuntu zip file and the working ubuntu text file. You will need to download the zip, extract it, then copy the working ubuntu text file into that folder and OVERWRITE the existing one.

I am consolidating into a single updated file but it's taking forever to post to Megaupload.

3. Move the six files into a folder called "ubuntu" (without "") to the root of your SDCard. You can also just move the entire UN-zipped file there as well. Just make sure it is the ubuntu folder only, which contains six files inside. It will be just over 2 GB.

4. Unmount your SDcard and enable USB Debugging.

5. Open command prompt (cmd in the run field for Windows)

6. Do to your SDK tools directory (i.e. mine was C:\Users\Chris\Desktop\android-sdk_r06-windows\android-sdk-windows\tools) Long i know lol

19. Open up Android VNC on your Droid. Enter the password you created and set the port to 5901. Also, set the colors to 24 bit, as this will give you the most colors to choose from and the most detailed screen. HIT CONNECT!

Give it a few minutes to load but you should now see the ubuntu legendary orange backgroup. Give it a few minutes to boot up and for those who know linux, it should look incredibly familiar.

Now, we want to be able to boot into ubuntu while not plugged in or using adb on our PCs.

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